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Security Affairs newsletter Round 28 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box.

AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties
A string could be used to crash Google Chrome
Pentagon on manual mission to build nation-wide security database
Tech finds 1.5M US medical records exposed on AWS
iCloud phishing attack hooks 39 iOS apps, most popular message client
3 flaws in StarBucks websites open its users to attacks
New attacks on critical communications infrastructure in the US
France rejects Googles appeal on right to be forgotten
Apple App Store suffers its first large-scale attack
New updates on Cyber Conflict Agenda 2016 and what’s new in ‘Cyber power’
Symantec fires staff caught up in rogue Google SSL cert snafu
Adobe fixes dozens critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player
Korean Govt child monitoring app is full of bugs exposing minors at risks
Find a zero-day exploit to hack IOS 9 and win a $1m prize
Apple WatchOS 2 Patches Tens of Vulnerabilities
Malvertising campaign targeted the Forbes Website, million users at risks
UK.gov creates £500K fund to help universities teach cyber skills
Targeted attacks on 4Chan and 8Chan exploited bot code in Imgur
China spies on airline passengers with IMSI-catchers
OPM stolen data includes 5.6 Million Fingerprints
Aussie spy agency gets first bug bounty credit
Russian biz talks the Tor but cant walk the walk: Effort to wreck network takes bizarre turn
Data breaches, stolen data and their sale in the Dark Web
XCodeGhost Attack – Is Apple’s Biggest Hack Ever linked to the US Intelligence?
IoT Security Foundation Launches
RipSec goes to Hollywood: how the iCloud celeb hack happened
Project Zero bod says antivirus black market is growing
Cookies MONSTER your security, even with encryption
Smartphone passcodes protected by the Fifth Amendment – US court
Lenovo caught with pre-installed tracking application for the third time
NHS Health Apps Library full of data-spaffing apps, claims studies
Vulnerabilities Found in Several SCADA Products
eBay of targeted attacks infiltrated by ex- Shin Bet intel men
Naikon APT Group backed by the Chinese PLA Unit 78020
DHS working on ‘self-destructing’ security chip for smartphones
Saudi Arabia came close to buying Hacking Team
British spies cast net to monitor every web surfer, everywhere, leaked documents show
Cookie handling in browsers can break HTTPS security
GreenDispenser, is the last ATM Malware in the wild
Karma Police, how GCHQ tried to track every visible user on Internet
The recent iOS 9.0.1 Update fails to fix the Lock screen Bypass flaw

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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